Comment · Fri, December 5, 2014 · Ceretropic
Semax MS Results are in!
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zyx6291 · 67 points
Hey guys, sorry this took longer than I wanted. I had a lot on my plate today so I was going to put it off til tomorrow, but then curiosity got the best of me and I had to try it.
TLDR: Semax from this company appears to be legit, though there is a chance that it might not be as pure as they claim.
I ordered this Semax about three weeks ago and just got it in the mail yesterday. I didn't realize it was coming all the way from Russia, but when I found out it raised some concerns like:
* Is it reliable
* Will it degrade during transit.
I'm a Chemistry PhD candidate doing work in cancer drug design and delivery research and my part of the lab works with peptides, so I thought that I could use a Mass Spectrometer to see what was really in the bottle.
Skip this part if you aren't interested in the methodology/instrumentation. Sample was prepped by removing roughly 9 µL from the commercial vial, putting 4 µL into centrifuge tube A and 5 µL into centrifuge tube B. A quick spin of A and B was performed to ensure the entirety of the sample was loc…
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u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Ceretropic
They use the same things we do. Semax, DI water, and methylparaben. You are seeing peaks from the methylparaben, which is used as an antimicrobial agent. I believe they use it in a concentration of .1%, which is what we matched for ours.